In the 1950s and ’60s, a group of American Anabaptist graduate students got to talking about the place of Mennonites in the modern world. One product of this conversation was an influential series of pamphlets.
Wayne Steffen
FRESNO, Calif. — Elmer Martens, a Mennonite Brethren biblical scholar and seminary president whose life was a testament to faith, knowledge and service to the church, died Sept. 21 of a heart attack. He was 86.